Fox to Adapt Ed Brubaker’s Comic Book Incognito

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/04/29/fox-to-adapt-ed-brubakers-comic-book-incognito/
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Mike Flemming has learned that 20th Century Fox is developing a big screen adaptation of Ed Brubaker’s graphic novel Incognito. Fox has hired Robert Schenkkan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of The Kentucky Cycle, to pen the big screen adaptation.


For those of you who didn’t read the six-issue comic book limited series when it was published last year, it follows a former super villain named Zack Overkill, who is in the Witness Protection Program after giving testimony against his former boss The Black Death. Overkill is required to take a drug that eliminates his super abilities, given a new identity and a job delivering mail in an office.

Here is the official synopsis from the trade paperback:

From the creators of Criminal and Sleeper comes the most insane and evil super-villain comic you’ve ever read! What if you were an ex-super villain hiding out in Witness Protection… but all you could think about were the days when the rules didn’t apply to you? Could you stand the toil of an average life after years of leaving destruction in your wake? And what if you couldn’t stand it? What would you do then? Incognito - a twisted mash-up of noir and super-heroics - by best-selling creators Ed Brubaker (The Death of Captain America) and Sean Phillips (Marvel Zombies) with Val Staples on colors. Collects Incognito #1-6.

The 176-page graphic novel is available on Amazon for around $13. Brubaker is quoted by deadline as saying that “We’ve all seen the story of a good person who goes undercover and gets corrupted” and that “This is a bad person forced to live among regular people, and how he’s affected by that.” Brubaker explains that the “goal was to have you rooting for him as he grows a conscience.” It certainly sounds like an interesting premise, and I’ve heard the comic is dark and pulpy.

 

[deathshead2]

I was thinking about buying the trade come Free Comic Book Day; as I've been wanting to check it out for some time. Two things though...
1. Awesome they're marking a movie
2. Damn it's FOX

 

[Octoberist]

there's a part of me who thinks Fox is changing but at the sametime, I remain skeptical.

 

[LoganGambit87]

'Don't Breathe' director Fede Alvarez is attached to helm the adaptation with 10 Cloverfield Lane Screenwriter to Pen The Script of the Ed Brubaker-Sean Phillips comic.

Rising scribe Daniel Casey has been brought on board to work on Incognito, Sony’s adaptation of the comic by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips.

Fede Alvarez, who directed this summer’s hit Don’t Breathe, is attached to helm the thriller that is being produced by Chernin Entertainment.

Initially published as a six-issue miniseries by Marvel’s creator-owned Icon Comics imprint, Incognito told of a super villain who turns evidence against his boss, ending up in a witness protection program in which he’s administered drugs to suppress his powers and given a low-level job. But the man starts to chafe under his “normal life” and when he finds a way to get his powers back, must decide what kind of life he wants to lead. Image Comics now publishes the comic.

Casey wrote the sci-fi thriller Kin, which is set to begin production later this month with James Franco and Jack Reynor starring and Shawn Levy producing. Lionsgate acquired the project in a competitive situation at Toronto.

Casey, who is repped by CAA, Noah Rosen of Writ Large and Hansen Jacobson, also wrote Godforsaken, a spec that sold to STX with Sylvester Stallone attached to star, and did script work on 10 Cloverfield Lane.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/daniel-casey-work-sony-adaptation-937314

 

[Black Narcissus]

Fantastic team.